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Gérard Oury (29 April 1919 – 20 July 2006) was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.
The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Marcelle Houry, a journalist, Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française just one year before World War II, but fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish persecutions by the Vichy government.
After 1945 he restarted his career as an actor, performing in the theatre and in ing roles in the cinema. Oury became a movie director in 1959 (The Itchy Palm (fr)) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas).
ing André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo, he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965's The Sucker (Le corniaud). The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. The following year, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) was even more successful, attracting the largest audiences ever in (17.27 million issions). This box-office record stood for decades, only sured in 1997 by Titanic from James Cameron.
Oury shot the 1969 comedy Le Cerveau (The Brain) in English, starring David Niven in the lead role as a criminal mastermind.
Living together with the French actress Michèle Morgan, he was the father of French writer Danièle Thompson and grandfather of actor/writer Christopher Thompson. He died aged 87 in Saint-Tropez on 20 July 2006.
Filmography
all 73
Movies 60
self 17
Director 17
TV Shows 13
Writer 4
Voice 2
Narrator 1

Les rois de la comédie (2023)

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)

Above the Clouds (2003)

Le Schpountz (1999)

Ghost with Driver (1996)

The Thirst for Gold (1993)

Vanille fraise (1989)

Levy & Goliath (1987)

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986)

Ace of Aces (1982)

Umbrella Coup (1980)

Out of It (1978)

Système 2 (1975)

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

Le Grand Échiquier (1972)

Delusions of Grandeur (1971)

The Brain (1969)

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

The Sucker (1965)

New Reports from (1964)

The Prize (1963)

Crime Does Not Pay (1962)

The Menace (1961)

The Itchy Palm (1960)

The Journey (1959)

Moana (1959)

Back to the Wall (1958)

Seventh Heaven (1958)

Young Girls Beware (1957)

Les Marines (1957)

House of Secrets (1956)

L'homme au parapluie (1956)

The Best Part (1955)

Heroes and Sinners (1955)

Woman of the River (1954)

Loves of Three Queens (1954)

The Fate of Two Queens (1954)

Father Brown (1954)

They Who Dare (1954)

The Sword and the Rose (1953)

Endless Horizons (1953)

Sea Devils (1953)

Le Costaud des Batignolles (1952)

The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)

Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)

Without Leaving an Address (1951)

Sorceror (1950)

Du Guesclin (1949)

The Secret of Mayerling (1949)

Jo la Romance (1949)

Antoine & Antoinette (1947)

Little Nothings (1942)
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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-04-29
Deathday
2006-07-19 (87 years old)
Birth Place
16th arrondissement of Paris,
Relationships
Michèle Morgan (1960 - 2006)
Children
Danièle Thompson
Relatives
José Luis Sánchez Besa
Citizenships
Also Known As
Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum, Gerard Oury, Жерар Ури
Awards
Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit, Commander of the Legion of Honour
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